03-28-2009, 05:37 PM
Thank you, Bruce. The crane will not be placed my Miami layout. As I said in my first post, it is a kind of distraction I needed from building my layout.
Now it was time to solder the legs and the cross girders together. I thought a while about how to align and fix the legs in a perfectly parallel and upright position for soldering. I came up with this jig that I made from .120" cardboard. This should do the trick. Now I only had to put some cardboard strips between the girders to press them to the legs.
![[Image: crane12.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/crane12.jpg)
I was quite nervous about soldering the legs and the girders together. If I’d fail to do it right, the whole project would go down the drain.
Now it was time to solder the legs and the cross girders together. I thought a while about how to align and fix the legs in a perfectly parallel and upright position for soldering. I came up with this jig that I made from .120" cardboard. This should do the trick. Now I only had to put some cardboard strips between the girders to press them to the legs.
I was quite nervous about soldering the legs and the girders together. If I’d fail to do it right, the whole project would go down the drain.
Kurt